User:MorganAustin

I'm no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.

- Michel Foucault

One Art

The art of losing isn’t hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster.
Lose something every day. Accept the fluster
of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.
The art of losing isn’t hard to master.
Then practice losing farther, losing faster:
places, and names, and where it was you meant
to travel. None of these will bring disaster.
I lost my mother’s watch. And look! my last, or
next-to-last, of three loved houses went.
The art of losing isn’t hard to master.
I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster,
some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent.
I miss
them, but it wasn’t a disaster.
—Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture
I love) I shan’t have lied. It’s evident
the art of losing’s not too hard to master
though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.

- Elizabeth Bishop

About Me

Hello and welcome to my user page. My name is Morgan, but I go by a lot of names so you can call me anything- my friends call me Mordecai or Morty (also Mordy, Mordie, etc.) so you can pick.

I'm currently a student in New Mexico studying philosophy. I live in New Mexico at the moment, but I was first born in Brisbane, Australia. When I was 2 I moved to Fresno, California, and only 2 years later I moved to Richardson, Texas. Growing up around the world has given me unique experiences that I could talk about for hours.
I like music and philosophy, and I joined Wikipedia since I noticed some problems in the Joan of Arc Wikipedia page, and since then I've been making various edits that I come across, but nothing too rigorous.

What I do

As I said before, I don't do too much edits, but I generally edit as I see things are wrong or need changing. I visit lots of philosophy and music pages for bands that I like. Some musicians I like are American Football, Cap'n Jazz, and Tyler, The Creator. I read a lot as well, my favorite book is Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves. It's a beautiful book I think everyone should read. I love The Lord of the Rings, Batman, and Dune.
Regarding philosophy, I have most experience with Michel Foucault and his practice of genealogy (I wrote my high school capstone paper on this; willing to email it to anyone curious to read it). Postmodern philosophy in general intrigues me the most, but I wouldn't say I could understand it. I like Gilles Deleuze and his co-writer Felix Guattari, Mark Fisher, and Slavoj Zizek. I wouldn't call myself a traditional 'communist' but I'm not, not a communist if that makes any sense at all. I suppose I'm just hesitant to subscribe to a particular belief.

“PIPPIN: I didn't think it would end this way.

GANDALF: End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path, one that we all must take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass, and then you see it.

PIPPIN: What? Gandalf? See what?

GANDALF: White shores, and beyond, a far green country under a swift sunrise.

PIPPIN: Well, that isn't so bad.

GANDALF: No. No, it isn't.”

- J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

Fun Facts About Me

• Favorite Colour

#ffde77

• Favorite Movie

The Lobster

• Favorite Sport

Skateboarding if you want to count that... Maybe also Basketball, but Baseball is the most fun to play (can be very boring to watch IMO).

Albums I like a lot

My topster:

I stole a lot of stuff from other users so thanks for that- do the same with my user page if you want... anyhoo that's all I can think of for now.